Commodities Analysis & Opinion

Monthly USDA report: RiceThe USDA has released its monthly rice report for March. In 2015/16 farming season the US crops are expected to contract by 5% compared to the previous season. By the end of...

The Rig Is UpThe oil rig count rose by one, slowing bullish oil momentum that had been building on hopes of a OPEC/non-OPEC production freeze and the mystery of some missing barrels. The International...

Whilst silver had a good week last week, outperforming gold and rising to multi-month new high, it looks like that may have been its “swan song” for a while. It looks quite positive at...

All the technical evidence suggests that gold is building out an intermediate top area here, which fits with the fundamental situation where complacency and “risk on” are making a...

Gold declines, touching SMA20 at 1240.00, which is a decisive level for today’s trading. RSI attempts to breach 50.00 levels and stability below this level along with moving below 1260.00 would...

The strength of the bearishness increased on ADX and RSI during the Asian session for oil-May settlement- and now prices stabilize below SMA20 at 40.65. Trading below this level will cause additional...

As forecasted in our Feb 21 article, gold made the push to complete the 5th wave, and indeed closed above the weekly downtrendline (low of week May 13, 2012 to high of week Aug 25, 2013) on the first...

General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) is a diversified technology and financial services company and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with a market capitalisation of around $290billion....

When panic and fear dominate financial markets, gold and silver both tend to rapidly rise in price. We witnessed this during the last financial crisis, and it is starting to happen again. Because I am...

Traders chasing oil and gasoline's bounce should be listening to industry leaders and the message of the market. BP (LON:BP) CEO says I do think the industry needs to prepare for lower for longer. A...

Early last Monday morning (Arizona time), silver began to rise. From its close on Friday of $15.46, it ran up to $15.82. Then it began to slide, eventually dropping to $15.17 by midmorning on...

Jordan Roy-Byrne recently posted an interesting video discussing gold’s Commitments of Traders (COT) data. The video was a response to numerous articles warning that the COT situation was...

The Oregon legislature has adopted a first-in-the-nation plan to phase out electricity from coal, a major source of climate-changing greenhouse gases.The state's environmental community had been...

For those looking forward to a permanent recovery in oil prices don’t hold your breath. With recent gains made after the FOMC meeting and increased fear mongering from OPEC, the news seems to be...